THE OSBORN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau Slope setting.
Osborn township has 28.7 square miles of land in Mountrail County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Coteau Slope, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Osborn and Mountrail County
Osborn is associated with Mountrail County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Osborn by land and water
The Census records 4.99 square miles of water within Osborn, or 14.8% of its total area. It is 8.8 percentage points higher than the 6% recorded for Mountrail County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Osborn township has 9.9 times the land area of nearby New Town city (2.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

